# Release an app

When you are ready to share your app with others, you can improve the install process by making your app installable via `pip`. You may also wish to configure the app label to make the app URL more user-friendly.

## Make your app installable from PyPI

This is not required but it is recommended to make your app installable from PyPI. If you opt to do so, a few files need to be added:

- `setup.py` - a set-up file used to configure various aspects of the app and also used as a command line interface for packaging the app

- `setup.cfg` - a configuration file that contains option defaults for `setup.py` commands

- `MANIFEST.in` - a file needed in certain cases to package files not automatically included

See Packaging and Distributing Projects for more details.

## Configuring your app name and label

We support the option of configuring your OMERO.web app with a name and label. See Configuring Applications.

This allows the URL to an app to be different from its name. For example, OMERO.figure app is named `omero_figure` but the url is simply `/figure/` as configured by __init__.py and apps.py.